Bill will make school enrolment policies more transparent

New rules and procedures to ensure schools operate fair and transparent enrolment policies will be put in place by new laws that could take effect in the next year.

Some will be the subject of regulations under the School Admissions Bill published today by Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan.

Although most of the detail is unchanged from a draft bill circulated in September 2013 by Ms O’Sullivan’s predecessor, Ruairi Quinn, it will exclude a provision that would have seen parents and schools facing court battles where a decision not to enrol a child was disputed.